WEEK # 3 “B is for BLOWOUT... and guess who beat USC?”
#1 Purdue Boilermakers (3-0)	vs.	#114 Mississippi State Bulldogs
coach Joe S.		coach Vic A.
45		10
BOXSCORE
GAME SUMMARY:
Kyle Orton throws for more then 500 yards for the second time in a row and WR Taylor Stubblefield has another big day receiving to lead the Boilermakers to a 45-10 victory vs. Miss. St.  Purdue's Orton 29-42-526-6-1 with a 216.6 rating, Taylor Stubblefield 11-303-4 receiving and Miss St. RB jerious Norwood lead all rushers with 69 yards on 19 carries.
#2 Boston College Eagles (3-0)	vs.	#151 Wofford Terriers
coach Wayne U.		coach Jerome W.
70		0
BOXSCORE
GAME SUMMARY:
Boston College dominated this game from start to finish and in every way possible.  They rolled up 357 yards rushing and another 313 through the air for a total of 670 total yards to Wofford's 326(they have a very good rushing attack utilizing the wishbone offense). Boston College rushing avg was 8.7 yds and their passing plays averaged 26.1 yards.  Overall, Boston's average yards per play from scrimmage was 12.64 yards! In addition to notching the shutout, Boston College had no turnovers and only 2 penalties so they really played a nearly perfect game. Boston College's QB finished the game with a passer rating of 431.6 and check out these stats for receiver Grant Adams- 8 rec, 300 yards and 5 tds. Bring on the league games!
#3 Wisconsin Badgers (2-1)	vs.	#57 Kansas Jayhawks
coach Don M.		coach Mike P.
18		19
BOXSCORE
GAME SUMMARY:
Kansas upsets Wisconsin 19-18 today. Wisconsin could not hold the ball at all and had 7 turnovers; 5 fumbles with 3 lost and 4 interceptions. Wisconsin also had a 51 yard passing TD called back due to offsetting penalties in the 1st quarter. It was not Wisconsin's day and Kansas marched down on their first drive of the day and scored. The XP was wide and Kansas led 6-0. What happens on Wisconsin's first drive? On their first play of the day Wisconsin fumbles, but luckily recovers this one. Then 4 plays later it ends on an interception by Kansas. Luckily Kansas goes 3 and out and punts. 3 plays later Wisconsin scores on a 51 yard pass play only to be called back by offsetting penalties. The write up can really stop there because this is how the entire game went. But in a nutshell, Wisconsin did pin Kansas for a safety after that and was down 6-2, proceeded to score the next 2 TD's and go up 15-6. (another XP failed). Wisconsin held the lead 18-13 until late in the game. They had the ball with time running out but guess what? HB Anthony Davis coughs up the ball at Wisconsin's own 33 with about 3 minutes left in the game! Wisconsin's defense holds Kansas to 4th down and 7 yards to go with 2 minutes left. Kansas needs a touchdown to win. What happens? Kansas connects on the 20 yard bomb (guessed right) and goes on to win the game. A great comeback and well coached game by Mike Payne. Kansas had a real good defensive card too. Again, it's very hard to win a game with 7 turnovers. Mike deserved this win anyways as Kansas had 3 more first downs and 11 more minutes of possesion time. Down goes Wisconsin!
#4 Ohio State Buckeyes (3-0)	vs.	#121 Lafayette Leopards
coach Mike P.		coach Don M.
80		16
BOXSCORE
GAME SUMMARY:
The Buckeyes continued their ground dominance (35-366-5TDs) with a sincere pounding of the Laffayette Leopards. Antonio Pittman (9-123-13.7avg-46LG-3TD) ran for 3 first half TDs of 40, 15, and 46 yards to put the Buckeyes up 24-10 early in the 2^nd QTR. Justin Zwick (8-15-160-2TD-0INT-SCK 0/0 RATE 186.9) tossed 2 TD passes to Santonio Holmes (4-198-49.5avg-93LG-3TD) of 25 and 73 yards in the second QTR as well. Lydell Ross (16-133-8.3avg-40LG-1TD) also scored in the second QTR on a 40 yard run.Tyler Everett capped off the first half with a 53 yard INT return for Ohio State as they headed for! half time with a 52-10 lead. The Buckeyes scored on all 8 first half possesions. After Joe McCourt (25-120-4.8avg-39LG-2TD) scored his second TD (10, 13) run of the game, Ohio State inserted Troy Smith (6-7-195-3TD-0INT-SCK 0/0 RATE 461.1) at QB. His first pass was a 77 yard TD to Ryan “HAMBONE” Hamby (3-91-30.3-77LG) to the delight of the HORSESHOE crowd. Smiths’ 2^nd TD pass was a 3 yard pop to Ted Ginn (7-66-9.4avg-31LG-1TD) to put OSU up 66-16 late in the 3^rd QTR. Troy Smith (2-55-27.5avg-54LG-1TD) proved he can run with the rest of the Buckeyes by putting two great spin moves on Laffayette defenders as he wisked off on a 56 yard TD run in the 4^th QTR for a 73-16 lead. With the Buckeyes backed up against their own goal, looking to get out of the hole, Smith let one fly (long pass guessed right, box cars) to Holmes and he took it all the way for a 93 yard score to end the pummeling, 80-16. Ohio State ammasses 721 yards of offense. Averaged 10.5 yards a carry. (35-366) Averaged 16 yards per pass attempt. Averaged 25.4 yards per pass completion. For 3 games….. OSU ground game 113-746-6.6avg-10TD Pittman 32-255-5TD Ross 55-305-3TD OSU pass game 45-76-59%-943yds-9TD-0INT-SCK 1/1 Holmes 13-289-22.2avg-3TD “HAMBONE” 12-279-23.3avg-2TD
#5 Oklahoma State Cowboys (3-0)	vs.	#167 South Carolina State Bulldogs
coach Don K.		Coach Jerome W.
42		16
BOXSCORE
GAME SUMMARY:
Oklahoma State Kicked off to start the game and the D held. On the Cowboys first play from scrimmage Donovan Woods connected with D'Juan Woods for an 80 yard TD strike. The Cowboys D held again with wonderful play from Defensive Stand-out Pagitte McGee. The Cowboys next drive took 5 plays and went 58 yards as Shaun Willis scampered 37 yards for the Cowboys next TD. On a couple of miss cues in the 2nd qtr South Carolina State gets on the board with 2 FG's to bring the score to 14-6. The Cowboys then started riding the back of Heisman hopefull Vernard Morency with 2 TD runs one of 51 yards and the othe rof 65 yards. Morency on the day 240 yards rushing on 24 carries and 2 rushing TD's. He also added 2 catches for 48 yards and a TD reception.  D'Juan Woods had 4 receptions for 142 yards and a TD. OSU was jsut looking for ball control in the 2nd half they were not trying to run up the score. The game ended with a score of 42-16. South Carolina State added a TD in the 3rd Qtr after another Int by OSU QB Donovan Woods. Coach Knight was quoted after the game "I am not a coach that like to rub it in and run the score up. I am not responsible for our schedule you would have to talk with the atheletic director. Our competition hasn't been where I would like it to be but we haven't trailed once and we are just keeping everything pretty simple so far." Coach Knight believes the Cowboys should move up in the polls this week one or two notches. After 500 plus offensive yards this week they really put on a show.
#6 Virginia Cavaliers (3-0)	vs.	#1 Southern California Trojans
coach firstblood10		Coach Mike P.
30		21
BOXSCORE
GAME SUMMARY:
The Virginia Cavaliers upset the USC Trojans 30-21 on the strength of 316 passing yards from Marques Hagans.  Virginia jumped out to a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter, and held on from a furious Trojans rally in the 2nd half.  Matt Leinart's incompletion on 4th and 4 from the Virginia 18 yard line inside two minutes sealed the victory for the Cavaliers.  Alvin Pearman ran for 59 yards on 15 carries, and caught 11 passes for 121 yards for the victorious Cavaliers.  Reggie Bush ran for 99 yards on 21 carries and had 2 TDs, and Matt Leinart passed for 187 yards on 19-34 passing for the Trojans.  The Cavaliers outgained the Trojans 394-313.
#7 Florida Gators (3-0)	vs.	#213 Grambling Tigers
coach JJ S.		coach Jerome W.
45		17
BOXSCORE
GAME SUMMARY:
Florida overcame 17 penalites to beat Grambling 45-17.  Ciatrick Fason ran for 203 yards on 20 carries with 2 TD's (making his run for the Heisman) and Chris Leak threw for 350 yards and 4 TD's.  The defense didn't play too bad, but most of the 17 penalties were on defense on third down to extend drives that should have been stopped.  The Gators are looking forward to their first conference game against West Virginia next week.
#8 Texas A&M Aggies (2-1)	vs.	#161 Florida International Golden Panthers
coach Vic A.		coach Jerome W.
37		10
BOXSCORE
GAME SUMMARY:
The Aggies offense was in high gear racking up 527yds total offense with 306 of those yards coming on the ground. Keith Joseph led all rushers with 110 yds on 13 carries along w/a pair of TDs. WB Jason Carter combined for 209 yards from scrimmage (121 receiving, 88 rushing) and also scored 3 times. The Aggies defenders wouldn’t be outdone; however with the defensive backfield doing a number on the Golden Panthers receivers limiting Florida Int’l to a paltry 66 yds net passing.
#9 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (3-0)	vs.	#119 Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders
coach Jerome W.		coach firstblood10
34		24
BOXSCORE
GAME SUMMARY:
#10 West Virginia Mountaineers (2-1)	vs.	#178 Liberty Flames
coach Bob M.		Coach Mike P.
70		22
BOXSCORE
GAME SUMMARY:
The West Virginia Mountaineers finally got on-track with a 70-22 thrashing of the Flames of Liberty. The Flames got the 1st td to go up 7-0, but West Virginia countered with 3 straight td passes from Rasheed Marshall to Chris Henry. Liberty managed to cut the lead to 21-14 with about 7 minutes to play in the first half. Then the floodgates opened as the Mountaineers struck for two late second quarter scores making it 35-14 at the half. The first play from scrimmage was an 88-yard td pass from Marshall to Henry and it was 42-14 and the rout was on. Liberty got a kickoff return td right at the end to make the final count 70-22. The gaudy stats: Marshall 26-40 for 383 yards and 6 tds, 5 to Chris Henry who caught 8 passes for 221 yards. The ground game was in pretty good shape as well with Kay-Jay Harris putting up 107 yards on 21 carries and Jason Colson going 72 yards on 8 carries, 2 for tds. Only downsides for the Mountaineers was allowing Sam Gado to rush for 121 yards on 19 carries and 11 penalties costing West Virginia 88 yards.